Check out SAISD restructuring plan

Last night, SAISD trustees gave Superintendent Robert Durón their blessing to start putting on paper the implications of a restructuring plan he presented to trustees at a board meeting Monday night.

Click here to view an interactive database that shows which schools would be affected under the proposal.

The plan represents, for the most part, recommendations of a community advisory committee that began its work about a year ago. However, targeted schools could change during the next phase of the restructuring process, Phase 4.

District staff will spend the next few months studying the impacts of closing 13 schools and restructuring 10 others.

Last night, trustees gave Durón the responsibility of developing a “detailed and clearly delineated facilities work plan” by Jan. 19. The motion for approval also stated that plan must incorporate the advisory committee’s recommendations, community input and the desires that each trustee expressed at Monday nights meeting (they ranged from wish list items for schools in their single-member districts to modifications of a school’s fate under the plan).

The sweeping plan staff will develop also has to include a timeline for implementation, associated costs and savings and an explanation of the impact restructuring will have on transportation, academic programs, attendance boundaries and personnel. He also must take into consideration projects under way by other public and private entities that might affect the district’s restructuring effort.